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December 1, 2010
 

Translating TweetDeck - The Next Five Languages

Around a month ago, we released the first ever international TweetDeck, with five languages. Today, we are bringing you even more, and the TweetDeck Localisation Preview now supports a stonking ten languages!

On top of the previous languages, we have now also added the following:

  • Brazilian Portuguese
  • French
  • Hungarian
  • Italian
  • Spanish
Coming Soon -  Russian, Ukrainian, German, Thai & Korean

 

You can download the Localisation Preview version here: http://www.tweetdeck.com/i18n    (Why "i18n"?)  

For more information, please check out our original post about the preview.


Thanks to our amazing translators!

Once again, his whole process wouldn't have been possible without our amazing translators. They have worked day and night over the past few months to ensure that TweetDeck is available in their own language and we cannot thank them enough.

An extra special thanks goes to the language team Leaders: Breno Pires, Patrice Leroux, Zoltan Kobolak, Stefano Ricciardi and Dario Alvarez

Brazilian Portuguese

French

Hungarian

Italian

  • Stefano Ricciardi
  • Francesca Valli
  • Daniele Amandolini
  • Federica Clarizio
  • Tziano Tassi

Spanish

  • Dario Alvarez
  • Manuel Robles
  • Alejandro Martinez
  • Stacey Hicken
  • Miguel Leon

 

I would like to be a volunteer too, where do I sign?

If you would like to apply to be a volunteer translator, please send an email to localisation@tweetdeck.com with any relevant experience and we will be in touch.

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Posted by Richard Barley 
October 21, 2010
 

It's TweetDeck, Translated

A while ago, as you may recall, Guillermo the TweetDeck bird was travelling and decided that we should make TweetDeck available in lots more languages. Always ready for a challenge, and knowing the dangers of upsetting Guillermo, we set about making this happen. Conrad took control and organised a crack squad of volunteers to help out with the translations, whilst our development team donned their thinking caps and set to work on all the necessary technical bits and bobs to make it work.

And now, after months of hard work from everyone, we are proud to present phase one of the project - the TweetDeck Localisation Preview.

This new version of TweetDeck allows you to use Desktop TweetDeck in any of the following languages:

  • Japanese
  • Dutch
  • Indonesian
  • Portuguese
  • US English
  • UK English

 

Nice, but when is my language coming?

Don't worry, we will soon be adding Chinese Simplified, Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, French, Spanish, Russian, Korean and German!

 

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Great! Where do I get it?

You can download the Localisation Preview version here: http://www.tweetdeck.com/i18n    (Why "i18n"?)

We have set up a special forum to track any problems specific to the Localisation Preview, so please go here to report any problems or suggestions with regard to the technical operation of the app or any of the translations.

Be aware that this version of TweetDeck is currently NOT using the User Streams API. 


OK I installed, how do I change the language?

Here's what you will need to do to change the language of the TweetDeck app. 

  1. Install the update from the link above
  2. Navigate to Settings > General
  3. Select your language in the drop-down box and click Save on the settings window.
  4. Restart TweetDeck
  5. Remove your columns and then re-add them to see column headings in the correct language
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Please note: At this time we are not yet able to offer spelling dictionaries for these languages. We are investigating options here but currently spell-check will still only be in US-English only.

 

Fantastic job on the translations! Who do I thank?

This whole process wouldn't have been possible without our amazing translators. They have worked day and night over the past few months to ensure that TweetDeck is available in their own language and we cannot thank them enough.

An extra special thanks goes to the language team Leaders:  Shinji Arakawa, Patrick Mackaaij, Reza Hasfinada & José Airosa

Japanese

  • Shinji Arakawa
  • Mitsuhiro Yoshida
  • Tetz Hakoda
  • Motoko Takano
  • Takamoto Ando
  • Yuya Saito

Dutch

Indonesian

Portuguese

 

I would like to be a volunteer too, where do I sign?

If you would like to apply to be a volunteer translator, please send an email to localisation@tweetdeck.com with any relevant experience and we will be in touch.

Filed under  //   localisation   preview   translation  
Posted by Richard Barley 
September 20, 2010
 

Translating TweetDeck - Can you help?

The project to translate TweetDeck into other languages is progressing well, but we need some more help translating into Russian, Korean, French and Italian. 

If you are fluent in both English and your mother tongue, please submit an application by sending an email to: localisation@tweetdeck.com with one of the following subject lines:

Localisation Application - Russian
Localisation Application - Korean
Localisation Application - French
Localisation Application - Italian 

Please submit any relevant experience on previous translation projects (if applicable) and any experience using tools such as Pootle.

Information about the role:

If your language isn't listed?

Send us email (localisation@tweetdeck.com) with language suggestions and any relevant translation experience. We will check it out and may add your suggestion to the list!

 

Filed under  //   localisation   translation  
Posted by Richard Barley